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On top of fear of looking stupid, my bigger concern is lack of novelty in my work. Seems like any idea I have for a blog post or book, or any photo I'm planning has already been explored in depths by someone else. I know the joy is in the process mostly, not the result. But doing something while knowing it is certainly not original make it really hard.


It probably has. It's super difficult to be truly unique in a world where billions have learned to read and write. It doesn't matter however. The people who see your work haven't seen/read everything out there. You can be unique for them.


You shouldn't disregard that even when you have the same intent as someone else, you work your way to get there, and that's usually more than enough to build a distinction.


Like the look of the blog. Is it a completely custom blog engine and theme, or some standard thing?


Yes, custom. Just a basic Go server with some HTML/CSS


I wonder what tool was used to create such beautiful diagrams.


They seem to be done using Excalidraw [0]. I'm not 100% sure about the animated one, probably excalidraw-animate [1]

[0] https://excalidraw.com/ [1] https://github.com/dai-shi/excalidraw-animate


Excalidraw + Adobe Animate - I have never seen Excalidraw-animate before though so this could be new option!


Yep, you got it. We're big fans of Excalidraw!


> KDE.org now uses the Hugo.

But in the footer there is "Powered by Jekyll with Type Theme". Hm...


The website of the blog post describing kde.org has the "Powered by Jekyll..." footer. The actual kde.org website that the blog post is talking about, does not.


The article site is powered by Jekyll. The actual KDE.org site is Hugo



The project was done for fun to satisfy curiosity, I believe. I can appreciate it even if it isn't a perfect "product".


It's not usable or even demo-able, I'm candidly wondering what people are upvoting.


Because (per the creator) a more stable release will follow.

If people are interested (the people who are upvoting), they can provide suggestions/feedback and possibly get involved with the project in some capacity.

Im candidly wondering how hard it is to understand this foreign concept.


Because it's fun and original. And it's usable for me at the moment.


"Only Forward" by Michael Marshall Smith. Unexpected.


Just learned about Database Lab. Amazing! Thanks for sharing!


> Voyager 1 will not approach another star for nearly 40,000 years That's a lonely ride...


The irony is: I get "Your connection is not secure" when trying to open the link.


I've uncapped MaxRequestWorkers while I wait for the Cloudflare queue, it should work now (I believe you were seeing an error related to TLS timeout).


Peter F. Hamilton, "Commonwealth Saga" and "Void Trilogy". Among the best Sci-Fi I've ever read.


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